llano

• “The term llano estacado is usually translated as “staked plain.””

  Simon & Schuster: EMPIRE OF THE SUMMER MOON

• “The llano was a place of extreme desolation, a vast, trackless, and featureless ocean of grass where white men became lost and disoriented and died of thirst; a place where the imperial Spanish had once marched confidently forth to hunt Comanches, only to find that they themselves were the hunted, the ones to be slaughtered.”

  Simon & Schuster: EMPIRE OF THE SUMMER MOON

• “They've cut the 'phone down to the' llano 'as a start.”

  Adventures in Many Lands

• “What do you expect from a city whose founder couldn't be bothered to find a Spanish dictionary or speaker and learn that the Spanish word for plain is "llano"?”

  BlueOregon

• “I drive through the llano in silence while one commits suicide on the banks of the Pecos River as the Border Patrol closes in.”

  Fictionaut: Headstone

• “The latter appeared as a collection in a work titled "El llano en llamas" ( "The Burning Plain").”

  The few, the proud, the work of Juan Rulfo (1917–1986)

• “To Juan Rulfo and Pedro Paramo, and his short stories El llano en llamas, and the simple and tragic photographs he took of rural Mexico.”

  Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio - Nobel Lecture

• “A native of the llano estacado whose first novel, Waltz across Texas 1975, was set on a ranch near Lubbock, Crawford narrates the Comanche wars of the 1870s from the perspective of a U.S.”

  Texas novels

• “Danjoy, editors, Amazonia Peruana: vegetación húmeda tropical en el llano subandino.”

  Purus varzea

• “Danjoy (editors), Amazonia Peruana: vegetacióon húmeda tropical en el llano subandino.”

  Monte Alegre varzea

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